Back in my early high school i tripped upon this article
from a magazine about a person having Multiple Personallities.
It was only an article but a book was on its way of getting
here in Asia that time.. Now there werent only two or three
personalities that enveloped this person but 24 or more.
The one that presides all the other personas was the Tutor.
He taught all the other personalities what they know ..
The personalities includes : A soldier,a Rapist, a murderer,
the Bomb expert, A guardian etc.
Now various attempts to make this into a movie were made..
And now Im' already working and it's still in the hang.
Even Joel Schumacher tried his hand making
a movie based on this person. A filmed called "Crowded House".
Rumors also Told about Leonardo Di Caprio starring on a Role.
Now some of you may have already read Sybil the lady with 16
personalities.. Now This person and the book about Him on
my opinion inspired all this. His name is Billy Milligan.
Billy Milligan was a man tormented by 24 distinct personalities
battling for supremacy over his body -
a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail,
arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women.
In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by
reason of insanity caused by multiple personality -
the first such decision in history - bringing to public light
the most remarkable and harrowing case of
multiple personality ever recorded.
In 1977 a series of abductions and rapes in Ohio were followed
by the arrest of William Stanley Milligan, who was assigned
a public defender by the court. Milligan, who had previously
been convicted of rape and armed robbery, was given a routine
psychological evaluation by prosecution-friendly psychiatrists
who quickly concluded that something was seriously wrong
- that Milligan,
in fact, had multiple personality disorder.
Milligan eventually became the first multiple
to receive a not guilty by reason of insanity
verdict in a criminal trial.
Each of Billy Milligan's 23 distinct personalities
had their own voice, their own histories,
their own character (or lack thereof) --
they were different people, quite literally.
The sequel, "The Milligan Wars", has only been published
in Japanese and will not be available in North America
until the movie based on the first book comes out.
This book apparently covers what happened to Milligan
after 1981 and the end of the first book. Based on what
I could find on the web, no one really knows when or
if the movie will actually be made,
which means no one knows when or
if the second book will be published.
However, the news media constantly expressed the bitterness
which people felt about Milligan - they had him convicted
long before the trial and made a definite influence on the
final decision which was to put him into prison and throw
away the key basically. His treatments which had been doing
him so much good, ceased. However they agonized,
his doctors could not change the court's mind.
Milligan scored very high on IQ tests and had, like most MPD's,
had a troubled childhood. His story was detailed by Daniel Keyes.
Keyes also wrote FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON which was later made into a movie.
The following letter surfaced on a web page. One can see that it is,
in places, disjointed - insanity probably made worse by the long
sojourn in prison is apparent. But Milligan makes some points
which are worthy of consideration.
here how the letter goes:
------------begin letter from Billy Milligan-----------
In an interview with Astraea's Eleanor Heartforde, Billy Milligan says:
I just did a thing for the Japanese and I read something and I can't
remember, but I probably ordered one of my guides to put it on the net.
We have a super computer. We flag important things, such as "MPD, DID,"
we flag "government agencies," and that's how I found your booklist.
Nippon Television considered me one of the most informed experts because
I've lived with MP with 40 years; also the doctor who did the
biofeedback tests; Dr. Tomin, she's in Los Angeles somewhere. She and
her husband developed a machine that is the most amazing mind reader
you've ever seen.
Basically I've been approached. But I don't do talk shows, I've been
asked to be on Donahue and everything else. My books are "Minds of Billy
Milligan" and the "Milligan Wars." This was published in Japan. Both
sold 3 million copies each.
This was twenty years ago for me. This is, I see this crap come on tv
all the time. These doctors are making it happen, or creating these
people. I'm not saying I was anything special, but there's millions less
people than we are told. There's probably two or three hundred in the
whole US. I see these people switch back and forth on TV like there's
nothing to it. And that just isn't possible. Why would anyone want to go
on TV and lose control?
I've read all these books, and doctors saying they're treating hundreds
of MP cases, and they're MAKING them, because they don't have anything
else to do with their time, and you know psychiatrists have the highest
suicide rate among professionals.
Imagine yourself standing in front of a sink. You're getting a glass of
water. And the whole world around you instantaneously changes, and now
you're in a park acting like you're getting a glass of water. Out of
thin air. And you just lost that time. That's what it's really like. And
basically to me, I'm sick and tired of the phonies, the freak shows and
the phonies, because what they're doing is not only damaging the people
that they're making role play these games, they're damaging the people
who are desperate for help.
That is what I will go on. That's what I told the Japanese. 30 million
people watch Sunday Plus 30 and I've been getting an enormous response.
I haven't published "The Milligan Wars" in the US because I'm being sued
over the information that is in it. The state of Ohio Dept. of Mental
Health makes too much money over MP. I've caught them, graft, everything.
They're taking DID patients and give them shock treatment and everything,
and they get paid for that.
When I downloaded the Ohio State Dept. of Mental Health computers, and
checked their personnel and hospital records, and forensic center
records, I'd find things like that they charged $11.80 for a hard boiled
egg and cup of milk.
In my book, 90% of all psychiatrists are phoneys. They're just snake oil
salesmen. They just bill Medicare and Medicaid an enormous amount of
money and then talk you into coming in and crying on their shoulder. And
then drug you up.
I'm trying to make a film based on The Milligan Wars. Minds of Billy
Milligan explained what it was. The Milligan Wars is the fighting of
these doctors over the situation. They'll keep you as long as they can.
They convince your children that they have it.
To the psychiatric community, MPD/DID is a marketable commodity.
They've actually opened hospitals entirely devoted to it. They keep
their game going until their insurance runs out. There's one called Del
Almo, up here in Los Angeles, and it's one of the worst. I was in Del
Almo myself for about a day and a half, until the federal marshals came
and dragged me out.
My thing is educating people. I just did this thing for Nippon TV that
if you want to you can contact 3.1 Productions in Hollywood, and Warner
Brothers. Ask them "What's going on with the "Milligan Story," Because
they've actually tried to quash this, because the doctors and hospitals
don't want this sh-- out in the open, cause it'll ruin a lot of their
freak shows. They didn't put it in the DSM-III until I came along, 20
years ago. Now, I'm being sued for trying to stop them. Everybody's
suing everyone, trying to stop it, cause they don't want anyone stopping
their freak show.
I've trained actors to play this role; Johnny Depp, Christian Slater,
John Cusack, and Leonardo deCapio, to enact MP as it really is and not
as it is popularly seen. The people that go on those shows are merely
conditioned actors. It's like Chris Sizemore. It's what she is now, is a
trained actor. It's really depressing.
I own a production company now, called Stormy Life Productions. We're
going to make a short film. We're more than willing to work with groups
who want to put something up on the air. We're ready to go on television
with facts and figures.
I actually talked to a young lady who recanted her statement. The social
workers actually talked her into saying her father molested her. They
took her out of her home. She went to school and talked another girl
into saying the same thing, because they'll buy you jeans and sneakers
and all kinds of stuff! And in six months she's really missing her
family. Her father was in jail and everything, and then she came
forward. This is what our psychiatric social workers and psychiatric
community will actually do. They are dangerous to the mental health and
well-being of our entire society.
Basically I hope that people who are humane and caring people will help
us join this resistance. I want a movement started. I want the freak
show stopped. It's doing more damage than it is good.
Billy Milligan
21 October 1996
And by the way The book title is " The Mind of Billy Milligan "
and i read the article from a cousins Penthouse January 1982
where the book was featured..
To my less informed Japanese friends ...
レビュー
内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
ビリー・ミリガンのなかには、じつに23もの別人格が潜んでいた。性格だけでなく、知能、年齢、国籍、性別さえ異なる彼らはなぜ生まれたのか。一貫した意識を奪われ、自殺を繰り返し試みるほどに追いつめられた基本人格のビリーは、いかに混乱をのりこえていくのか。そして世間の好奇と不信の目にさらされつつ進む裁判の行方は…多重人格という驚異の世界を通じて見えてくる人間の真実を温かな筆致で描き出す傑作実録。
何年も前にこの本を読んで、それ以来多重人格者やtrue crimeに興味を持つようになった。一人の人間の中に年齢も性別もばらばらの24人もの人格が存在している。そして彼らの一人一人には個性や好き嫌いがあり、ある人はすごいメカニックだったりする。こういう人間は何万人に一人しかいないのだろうか。ひょっとすると一人の中に2，3人くらいはいることもあり、本人さえ気付いていないのかもしれない。
この作品が実際にあった話というのに驚いた。自分の他に23人もの人が、たった１つの自分の体にいるとしたらどうだろう・・・。主人公のビリー・ミリガン（と心の中の人々）は、その考えがたい現実に立ち向かい、辛い病院生活を耐え切ったのだ。
私が言うのも何だが、多くの人にビリー・ミリガンが受けた幼児期の虐待や病院の酷いビリーの扱い様を知ってもらいたい。今でもこんなことが世界のどこかで起こっているかもしれない。と思うと私は悲しくてしょうがないのです。
上巻ではビリーの書いた絵が見れる（モノクロだった）。その絵はすばらしく、専門の画家を思わせぶった。その絵がビリーの中の他人格が書いたんだからビックリしてしまう。是非そこにも着目してほしい。
私にとって思い出に残る作品だし、キイス氏の書く文は最高だが、最後の後味の悪さはいただけないと思う。 --このレビューは、同タイトルの新書のレビューから転載されています。.
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